Common abbreviations used: CP = Carlisle Patriot; CJ = Carlisle Journal;
CN = Cumberland News; ENS = Evening News and Star; CD = Carlisle Directory
OAKLANDS DRIVE, UPPERBY
First appearance in electoral register in 1954
OBERTELLIE, A Rickergate
Ice cream cream
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p103 Photo of cart by Carel Cross
CD 1893-94 Ad p174
OCEAN ACCIDENT AND GUARANTEE CORPORATION Ltd English St;Lowther St; Bank Street
CD 1905-06 Ad p47
CD 1907-08 Ad p43
CD 1910-11 Ad p44
CD 1913-14 Ad p50
CD 1920 Ad p82
CD 1924 Ad p112
CD 1927 Ad p22
CD 1931 Ad p148
ODDFELLOWS ARMS Crown Street/ Currock St; in local directories from 1858
CIC p62 ohoto of Oddfellows Inn; tenant W.Harrison about 1900
ENS 02.11.1916 Closure
CN 08.11.1991 p4 (illus)
ODDFELLOWS ARMS Fisher Street; in local directories 1844 to 1855
ODDFELLOWS ARMS Irishgate Brow; in local directories 1844 to 1876
ODDIES HOUSE Marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle at Etterby
ODEON CINEMA Botchergate Formerly the Botchergate; The Gaumont
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p23 Photo in 1968; p24 interior photo
CN 07.03.1969 p1 Closing
OFFICERS CLUB Globe Lane
Clothes shop
CN 27.07.2001 p16 Chain store started by ex city businessman
OFFICE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION Cecil Street
CN 23.08.2002 p21 Ad for new internet cafe
O’HARA, George Trafalgar Street
Upholsterer
CD 1966-68 Ad p304
OLD AGE PENSIONERS AND HOMES
See also Age Concern; Anchorage Centre ;Cumberland Court; Welsh House Home
CJ 15.01.1946 p1 Formed
CN 29.06.1990 p5 City pension fight heads for Commons
CN 02.07.1993 p13 City home voted tops (Blackwell Vale)
CN 03.05.1996 p5 Living costs force more OAPs into poverty trap
CN 06.03.1998 p1 U turn call on OAP fares
CN 03.04.1998 p3 U turn on bus fares
CN 17.04.1998 p3 Pensioners in front line (Buses)
CN 01.05.1998 p6 D-Day next week (Bus fares)
CN 12.06.1998 p1 Council pledge to restore bus fare cuts
CN 13.07.2001 p13 Letter concerning provision of housing in city for elderly
CN 01.03.2002 p8 OAPs get security packs; prevention of bogus callers
CN 07.11.2003 p2 OAPs threaten to stand in next city council elections over
poll tax
CN 12.03.2004 p1 Pensioners protest at council tax increases
OLD ANCHOR INN Bridge Street, Caldewgate
Carlisle Criminals Stats 1901 p8 Pulled down for street improvements
OLD ARCADIAN RESTAURANT
CN 26.08.1994 p30 Ad
OLD BARONIAL HALL, WELLINGTON HOTEL see WELLINGTON HOTEL
OLD BERT AND BILL BUS STATION
CN 01.11.1963 p12
OLD BLACK BULL INN Annetwell St see BLACK BULL INN
OLD BLUE BELL LANE So named in 1794
OLD BREWERY see CARLISLE OLD BREWERY; BREWERIES
OLD BREWERY HALLS OF RESIDENCE
CN 17.01.1997 p9 (illus) Fire chief’s list of shame smokes out students
who ...
OLD BUSH Scotch Street/ Old Bush Lane; closed 1917
OLD BUSH LANE Scotch Street; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
OLD CREIGHTONIANS ASSOCIATION
CN 05.03.1949 p5 Memorial tablet
CJ 03.10.1950 p1 Revived
OLD CROFT Stanwix
1858 3 acres of land known as ‘Old Croft’ to Mr George Head Head;
1888 Mr William Johnstone, a watchmaker, bought the land and built a house on
the site.
OLD ENGLISH GAME CLUB
CN 15.01.1988 p19 101st annual open show in Carlisle
OLD GRAPES LANE, English St So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
OLD GREYSTONE ROAD
Changing Face of Carlisle, M.Dickens p45 photo of Old Greystone
City Minutes 1929-30 p650 19 houses at Old Greystone unfit for human habitation
CN 26.08.1966 (illus) CN 02.09.1966 p10 CN 23.09.1966 p12
OLD KING’S HEAD see KING’S HEAD
OLD PRINTFIELD
CN 17.07.1998 p13 Wedding solves riddle of 2 Forsters
OLD QUEENS’ HEAD Church Street, Caldewgate; in local directories 1834
to 1884
CP 23.12.1887 Ad; to let
OLD QUEENS HEAD HOTEL St Albans Row; in local directories to 1902-03
Carlisle in Camera 1 p4 photo of shop in late 1870s
CJ 01.09.1874 Offered for sale by auction
1882 Porters Directory Ad p86 George Hall
CN 01.11.1991 p4 (illus)
OLD TURKS HEAD Fisher Street; in local directories to 1837
CJ 30.03.1822 p1c To let
CJ 01.01.1831 p1 Ad; Mary King moves to the Turks Head, Fisher Street
OLD TURKS HEAD Scotch Street; in 1829 Directory
OLD TURKS HEAD LANE East off Scotch St; so named on Cole’s 1805 map
OLIPHANT, M Balfour Road
Taxi, glassware and cutlery
CD 1952 Ad p383
OLIPHANT, T West Tower Street
Upholsterer
CD 1893-94 Ad p204
OLIVER and SNOWDON Cecil Street; Rosehill Estate; Founded 1840 in Haltwhistle;
came to Carlisle in 1925
Farm supplies
CD 1952 Ad p255
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p220
CN 1955-56 Ad p221
CN 1961-62 Ad p41
CN 1966-68 Ad p252
CN 15.05.1970 pp15-16 (illus) Ad
CN 26.01.1973 pp13-16 (illus) Feature
CN 30.09.1977 pp15-19 (illus) Move to Rosehill Estate
OLIVERS English Street
Shoes
CN 09.10.1992 p7 City shop leads way for service
OLYMPIA CIRCUS
CN 27.08.1993 p4 Air show was a first for city
OLYMPIC ATHLETES see BURRELL,Wendy; personal index
ONE-O-ONE CLUB
CN 23.12.1965 p1
CJ 26.08.1966 p9
CN 23.02 1968 p11 To close
CJ 23.02.1968 p3 To close
CJ 14.06.1968 p3 Closed
CN 03.04.1969 p3 Taken over
ONE TO ONE COMPUTERS
CN 25.01.1991 p8 Ad
ONE WAY SYSTEM see TRAFFIC SCHEMES
ON LINE SYSTEMS Started 1992; Kingstown Industrial Estate
CN 24.03.2000 p21 Ad
CN 01.11.2002 p18 Employs 21, £1.5m turnover
OPEN STUDIO GLASSWORK Great Corby and Carlisle
CN 08.04.1988 p40
OPEN UNIVERSITY
CN 21.05.1971 p8 (illus)
O PESCADOR Portugese restaurant
CN 15.11.1991 p22 Ad
OPTION ONE Bathrooms and kitchens
CN 15.01.1993 p10
ORAM, W and Sons Lowther Street; William Oram, grocer, died 27.04.1887 [Monumental
Inscription 12/13]; in directories from 1869; William Boustead Oram, grocer,
died 10.02.1919 [MI 12/13]
Grocers
1882 Porters Directory Ad p100 34-6 Lowther St
CD 1907-08 Ad p14
CD 1910-11 Ad p14
CD 1913-14 Ad p108
CD 1920 Ad p202
CD 1924 Ad p60
CD 1927 Ad p64
CD 1934 Ad page back iii
CD 1937 Ad page back iii
ORANGE ORDER
Carlisle Examiner 17.07.1858 p3f 12th July celebrations
CN 20.06.1980 p1 Orange march
ORCHIDS
CN 20.06.2003 p3 Orchids bloom near Tesco supermarket on Warwick Rd
ORDNANCE ARMS Finkle Street; in local directories to 1902-03
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p46 Chris Little tenant
CP 08.09.1899 p6 Application for removal to new premises
City Minutes 1902-03 item 438/9 Declined to renew licence
CJ 12.12.1903 p6 Tenancy agreement
CN 28.06.1991 p4 (illus)
O’REILLY Fisher Street
Furnishers
CD 1920 Ad p182
O’REILLY LTD West Tower Street
Hardware merchants and furnishers
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p284
O’REILLY Brunswick Street
Accountants
CN 02.09.1994 Supplement
ORFEUR STREET
City Minutes 1895-96 p 79 Approval for 9 houses
ORGANISTS
CN 24.02.1989 p4 Long service by organists
ORMAN, Robert and Son St Albans Row
Fishmonger and game dealer
CD 1905-06 Ad p257
CD 1907-08 Ad p129
ORMEROD, R.M. Close Street
Plasterer
CD 1880 Ad pxlvii
1882 Porters Directory Ad p48 Plasterer and cement merchant
CD 1884-85 Ad pviii
CD 1910-11 Ad p68
CD 1913-14 Ad p58
CD 1920 Ad p58
CD 1924 Ad p76
CD 1927 Ad p80 Established 1855
ORNAMENTAL GARDENS; Rickerby Park Entrance opened 21.12.1933
CJ 22.12.1938 p8
ORPHANAGES see AUSTIN FRIARS; Nazareth House
ORTON LEA CHILDRENS CENTRE
ENS 16.05.2000 p1 Shock as kids care home shuts
CN 19.05.2000 p3 Shock closure care home to reopen
OSBORN, Mr School run circa 1851 in Castle St [M.Smith Autobiography Vol 1 p188]
OSBORNE, Joseph and Sons
CN 24.04.1995 p6 End of road for family firm
OSWALD STREET
City Council Minutes 22.07.1881 Approval for laying out new street
City Council Minutes 05.08.1881 Approval for 27 new houses
OTTAKAR’S Scotch Street
Book shop
Cumbria Life Issue 63 March/April 1999 pp32-33 2A 9
OTTER FURROW House on London Road opposite Harraby Inn; Bulmer 1901 Samuel Boustead
and Jonas Todd
OTTER HOUNDS
CJ 10.06.1921 p4 CJ 22.04.1938 p5 CJ 30.04.1940 p1 CJ 09.07.1940 p1
CJ 12.07.1940 p7 CN 01.06.1940 p4 CN 19.10.1940 p3 CN10.05.1941 p5 CN 19.10.1941
p3 CN 06.02.1981 p4 (illus)
CJ 04.09.1874 A day out with the Carlisle Otter Hounds - from Daily Telegraph
Carlisle People and Places pp 39 - 44 [12 photos], p66, p83
OTTER INN Drovers’s Lane; in local directories from 1873; closed February
1907
CP 27.09.1895 Otter; licence withdrawn
CP 05.02.1907 Licensing session; the Otter closed
CN 22.02.1991 p4 (illus) Unsavoury types at city pubs
OTTERS Sculpture in Lanes by Judith Bluck
ENS 07.08.1986 Judith Bluck doing some otters
OUR LADY AND SAINT JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC CHURCH; Original Catholic Chapel
on West Walls established 1798, site shown on Wood’s 1821 map of the city;
foundation stone of Saint Mary and St Joseph laid in Chapel Street March 1824;
church opened for services Christmas Day 1824; foundation stone of Warwick Road
Church laid 18.05.1891; church opened 15.06.1893; war memorial unveiled 22.05.1921
See K.Rafferty Portrait of a Parish 1798 - 1993
CN 16.01.1970 p10 (illus)
CP 16.06.1893 Opening of Church
CJ 16.06.1893 Opening of Church
CJ 22.06.1943 p1 50th Anniversary
CN 26.06.1943 p3 50th Anniversary
CJ 08.08.1952 p3 Consecration
ENS 19.08.1970 Supplement p8 (illus) Our Lady’s is city centre R.C.Church
CN 18.06.1993 p2 A church century in flowers
CN 30.07.1993 p4 (illus) Churches red letter day
CN 14.02.1997 p18 Father Turner back in harness
ENS 27.11.1999 p13 (illus) New MM clock
CN 24.12.2003 p12 Description of Sunday Service by non Catholic reporter
OUTER RING ROAD Outer ring road got no further than stage 1, the section between
Warwick Road and London Road, built in 1969; scheme scrapped 1981
See also BYPASS; RING ROAD; TRAFFIC SCHEMES
CN 11.04.1975 p17 CN 02.05.1975 p11 CN 16.05.1975 p5
CN 23.05.1975 p12 CN 20.06.1975 pp 3,7 CN 11.07.1975 p7
CN 06.10.1978 p17 CN 23.03.1979 p11(illus)
CN 25.09.1981 p3 Abandoned
OVERWATER JAM FACTORY
ENS 03.03.1996 p8 Ace of Bass
ENS 13.03.1996 p10 (illus) Pay up, pay up and save a firm
CN 16.08.1996 p15
CN 04.10.1996 p12 Success sounds sweet at the jam factory
OVERWATER SCHOOL Fisher Street; opened September 1970
CN 18.12.1970 p7 (illus) CN 16.07.1971 p13
CN 10.03.1972 p7 (illus) Field centre
CN 21.04.1978 p8 Closes
OWEN AND THOMPSON
1811 Jollie’s Directory p84 Hat manufactory without the Irish Gate
OWL AND HARE 92 Botchergate; in local directory for 1834
OXFAM SHOP Bank Street
CN 21.09.2001 p5 Makes 100,000 a year for charity
OYSTERS
CN 03.01.2003 P6 D.Perriam; Carlisle Oyster Club founded by 1816